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Sluggish startup and numerous restarts

pnavce

Posted 20 February 2016 - 10:48 AM

pnavce

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PC runs slow all the time. PC is very sluggish on startup, often taking as long as 10 minutes till ready for use. Frequently PC will not become ready and I have to manually turn off and restart, sometimes 3 or 4 times before PC will actually come alive for use. Once a program is open (i.e. MS Word) and do something else for a time, then MS Word will have to be closed and restarted to make it work. Opening of most every program can take up to 3-4 minutes for it to actually open up.

Frequently the PC will restart on its own 4-5 times during initial start up procedure.

Description: The program ShellExperienceHost.exe version 10.0.10240.16515 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Security and Maintenance control panel.

Description: The program ShellExperienceHost.exe version 10.0.10240.16515 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Security and Maintenance control panel.

Description: The program explorer.exe version 10.0.10240.16603 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Security and Maintenance control panel.

Description: Windows is unable to verify the image integrity of the file \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\drivers\RxFilter.sys because file hash could not be found on the system. A recent hardware or software change might have installed a file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious software from an unknown source.

Date: 2016-01-29 17:38:06.825

Description: Windows is unable to verify the image integrity of the file \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\drivers\RxFilter.sys because file hash could not be found on the system. A recent hardware or software change might have installed a file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious software from an unknown source.

Date: 2016-01-18 18:59:11.022

Description: Windows is unable to verify the image integrity of the file \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\drivers\RxFilter.sys because file hash could not be found on the system. A recent hardware or software change might have installed a file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious software from an unknown source.

Date: 2016-01-18 18:56:02.144

Description: Windows is unable to verify the image integrity of the file \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\drivers\RxFilter.sys because file hash could not be found on the system. A recent hardware or software change might have installed a file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious software from an unknown source.

Date: 2016-01-18 18:51:53.324

Description: Windows is unable to verify the image integrity of the file \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\drivers\RxFilter.sys because file hash could not be found on the system. A recent hardware or software change might have installed a file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious software from an unknown source.

Date: 2016-01-18 18:12:42.733

Description: Windows is unable to verify the image integrity of the file \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\drivers\RxFilter.sys because file hash could not be found on the system. A recent hardware or software change might have installed a file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious software from an unknown source.

Date: 2016-01-18 12:01:14.619

Description: Windows is unable to verify the image integrity of the file \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\drivers\RxFilter.sys because file hash could not be found on the system. A recent hardware or software change might have installed a file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious software from an unknown source.

Date: 2016-01-15 21:22:22.767

Description: Windows is unable to verify the image integrity of the file \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\drivers\RxFilter.sys because file hash could not be found on the system. A recent hardware or software change might have installed a file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious software from an unknown source.

Date: 2016-01-11 08:06:30.015

Description: Windows is unable to verify the image integrity of the file \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\drivers\RxFilter.sys because file hash could not be found on the system. A recent hardware or software change might have installed a file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious software from an unknown source.

Date: 2016-01-04 10:36:09.372

Description: Windows is unable to verify the image integrity of the file \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\drivers\RxFilter.sys because file hash could not be found on the system. A recent hardware or software change might have installed a file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious software from an unknown source.

Latest Version button - Do NOT press the large Start Download button on the upper left!) Download, Save and Install it. Run Speccy. When it finishes (the little icon in the bottom left will stop moving), File, Save as Text File, (to your desktop) note the name it gives. OK. Open the file in notepad and delete the line that gives the serial number of your Operating System. (It will be near the top about 10 lines down.) Attach the file to your next post.

RKinner

Posted 21 February 2016 - 01:40 PM

RKinner

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Close all programs and run Process Explorer again.

Normally we expect to see System Idle as the top process. If you see svchost.exe or SettingSyncHost.exe at the top then right click on whichever is at the top (you can hit space bar if it jumps around too much) select Suspend. Then if you stopped it from jumping by hitting Space, hit Space again to make it jump around. What is now at the top?

(You can right click on the process and select Resume to put it back the way it was)

RKinner

Posted 23 February 2016 - 02:31 PM

pnavce

Posted 24 February 2016 - 08:09 PM

pnavce

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Speed has improved a little, but the restarts are still occurring even though less often. Some programs take a long time opening and Chrome or IE have to be restarted if left not in use for over 10 minutes. Nothing is consistently wrong the same all the time, everything varies without rime or reason. Guess that I am still not fixed. Any suggestions you have would be greatly appreciated.

pnavce

Posted 28 February 2016 - 06:01 PM

pnavce

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Had to go backwards to put "Dropbox" back into start up - I use this continuously for work with others on other pc's. This did cause the start up process to slow down, but did not cause any restarts to take place.

Opened FRST

entered"dxgkrnl.sys

Search Files completed."Search.txt" is saved in the same directory FRST is located. *Search 01*

entered "RxFilter.sys

Search Files completed."Search.txt" is saved in the same directory FRST is located. *Search 02*

Checked a few times and each time the System Idle Process now stays on top

Still seems like there is a large number of svchost.exe '### Host Process for WIndows S... going on. But I have no knowledge of what these things are - so I leave them alone (smart boy:)) )